[edlug] dig

[Andrew Beames <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Hi,

I was messing around with dig and got (what I think is) a strange result.. 
Does the output below mean that virgin is using googlemail under the covers?


$ dig -t MX virginmedia.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2 <<>> -t MX virginmedia.com
;; global options:  printcmd                  
;; Got answer:                                
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35036
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;virginmedia.com.               IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      10 aspmx2.googlemail.com. 
virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      10 aspmx3.googlemail.com. 
virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      1 aspmx.l.google.com.     

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
virginmedia.com.        1699    IN      NS      ns3.virginmedia.net.
virginmedia.com.        1699    IN      NS      ns1.virginmedia.net.
virginmedia.com.        1699    IN      NS      ns2.virginmedia.net.
virginmedia.com.        1699    IN      NS      ns4.virginmedia.net.

;; Query time: 55 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.3#53(192.168.1.3)
;; WHEN: Fri Nov 13 22:01:05 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 250


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